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...Canyon University: NRS 429V
November 9, 2014
HealthPrevention and Promotion
There are many definitions of healthpromotion. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines it as “the process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants, and thereby improve their health" (HealthPromotion, 2014). Per the American Journal of HealthPromotion (O'Donnell, 2011) it is “the art and science of helping people discover the synergies between their core passions and optimal health, enhancing their motivation to strive for optimal health, and supporting them in changing their lifestyle to move toward a state of optimal health”. In the opinion of the author, the aforementioned definitions refer to becoming involved in one’s own health and health care and taking responsibility for utilizing all systems available to prevent disease and gain optimal health. This may involve families, communities, and other available resources in the healthprevention and promotion process. In the article by Collins (2009) healthpromotion and prevention is achieved by collaboration of nurses, public health...

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Health and HealthPromotion
Deborah Keller
Thomas Edison State College
Health Assessment
NUR-416
Pamela Card
May 5, 2014
Health and HealthPromotion
Introduction
A traditional approach to health care in general is one in which the goal of intervention is disease management in an attempt to minimize the harmful effects of ahealth crisis. Once a health crisis occurs, the quality of life for an individual is already negatively impacted. Therefore, healthpromotion is an equally, if not more important, component of health care that aims to improve the quality of life. Through the primary prevention efforts of healthpromotion, emphasis on avoiding disease and adopting a healthy lifestyle offers the greatest opportunity for a healthy and fulfilling life. As primary care givers, nurses play an important role in healthpromotion by demonstrating proper attitudes and behavior modeling, by providing valuable patient education and by advocating for and empowering patients and their families. There are numerous nursing theories which provide a framework for nurses to employ health promoting strategies in their practice.
Defining Health...

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AWARENESS OF NUTRITION AND HEALTH ISSUES AMONG PREGNANT AND LACTATING MOTHERS: A CASE STUDY OF DISTRICT BASTI, U.P.
ABSTRACT
It is a well-known fact that the growth and development of a child begins from the mother’s womb. Right from the development of the child in the mother’s womb even at the time of birth and also till the child grows older. The child needs special care nutrition and regular health checkups. It is an obligatory duty of the parents as well as the birth right of the child to get the proper care and the nutrition. Infect the first nutrition of the child is provided by the mother through the breast milk till six months after which the child needs some supplementary food in addition to mother’s milk. If the child does not get the balanced diet, the child becomes the victim of malnutrition. Mother’s milk is a complete balanced diet and even protects the child from various fatal diseases. A mother and a child has a very deep relation with each other. A mother’s health and diet has a direct influence over the child. That is why a mother play an important role in framing a healthy life cycle.
A mother’s mortality and the child’s mortality have an inseparable connection. There are enormous reasons that lead to the abnormality in the child’s physical as well as mental health. A few of these include unavailability of mother’s milk lack of awareness,...

...In this essay will assess, planning, implementing and evaluating a healthpromotion activity. The healthpromotion activity is going be based at binge drinking. The plan is key element of assembly on health assessment needs with target population identified supported by relevant epidemiology and demography alongside current national health policies.
A health assessment need is a systematic method for reviewing the health issues facing a population, leading to agreed priorities and resource allocation that will improve health and reduce inequalities. Health is state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease. Importance of health assessment is to prevention, according to Naidoo and Wills (2005) state “that it is possible to intervene in a causal process and implies that there are particular risks to health that can detect and manage”. In other words to identify current needs and future health needs. Binge drinking is a heavy drinking session in which someone drinks at least twice the maximum recommended units of alcohol per day in one session.
In many parts of the world, drinking alcoholic beverages is a common feature of social gatherings. Nevertheless, the consumption of alcohol carries a risk of adverse...

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HealthPromotion
By: Amanda
February 9, 2014
HealthPromotionHealthpromotion is illustrated as the science and art of helping people change their lifestyle to approach a state of optimal health (Edelman, Kudzma, & Mandle, 2014). It is also stated that healthpromotion is the practice of promotinghealth to enhance the probability that person, private, and public support of positive health practices will become a societal norm (Edelman, Kudzma, & Mandle, 2014). Nurses are pivotal healthcare professionals who guide health decisions by persons, communities, and families toward healthpromotion (Baker, 2007).
Nurses must retain skills to achieve and understand the efficacy of evidence based interventions and know about related theories and models (Baker, 2007). As nurses we use healthpromotion to strengthen community action and create supportive environments for health (Goldman, 2012). Healthpromotion is used to address controversies that are controlled internally and externally among individuals (Goldman, 2012). Individual health behaviors are the internal determinants while socioeconomic and environmental conditions are the external...

...the socio-economic influences on health.
Task 1
Introduction:
Using the case scenario provided to me, I will produce a report to demonstrate an understanding of the effect socio-economic influences on Christina and Paul’s health and their unborn child. I will then make an assessment of the importance of government resources such as reports/research on inequalities in health in relation to the case scenario. Finally, I will identify and discuss the reason and any possible barriers to Mary accessing health care.
1.1:
The effects of socio-economic influences on Mary’s health:
Definitions:
Healthpromotion is the procedure of enabling people to improve on their health.
Public health is prolonging life through the organized efforts of society as well as promoting and protecting health and wellbeing of the public.
Social determinants of health refer to the social, economic and political situations that affect the health of individuals, communities and populations.
The effects of socio-economic influences on Christina’s health are evaluated as a combination of factors including, environment, citizenship status, discrimination and occupation. It is a way of looking at how Christina fits into society using economic and social measures that have been shown to impact her health and...

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HealthPromotion in Nursing Care
Robert Driver
GCU
Family-Centered HealthPromotion
NRS-429
Jennifer Wood
October 12, 2014
HealthPromotion in Nursing Care
HealthPromotion is the social science and art of helping individuals discover the interaction between their optimal health and core passions, increasing their ambition to strive for optimal health, and encouraging them in changing their lifestyle to move toward a state of ideal health. Lifestyle change is made possible through educational experiences that create awareness, increases motivation, and builds opportunities (Edelman, Mandle, & Kudzma, 2014, p. 11). The World Health Organization (WHO), defines healthpromotion as “the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. It moves beyond a focus on individual behavior towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions” ("WHO," 2013). The purpose of healthpromotion in nursing practice is to educate, provide positive influences and assist patients to maintain or improve their quality of life by preventing illness. Healthpromotion is of vital importance because it is aimed towards prevention, improving the quality of life...

...﻿How can a health practitioner facilitate behaviour change in an individual with a health-risk behaviour?
Health practitioners play an essential role in facilitating behaviour change in individuals that display health risk behaviours. Health practitioners are exposed to the aftermath of risky health behaviours everyday. Leading a lifestyle full of health risk behaviours is the most common cause of death and disease within most countries. For example, smoking is a significant modifiable behaviour within Australia that is known to directly cause many forms of Cancer, cardiovascular disease and the degeneration of the body. Health practitioners should promote good health behaviours such as the cessation of smoking through enabling individuals to increase their control over their health (Sinclair, J. Wk 7, LA, Slide 3).
In order to facilitate behavioural change in an individual with a health risk behaviour such as smoking, health practitioners need to consider the individuals’ current health status, including their physical, mental, and social wellbeing (Walker, J, Payne, S, Smith, P, and Jarrett, N. 2007. p2), as well as their current lifestyle, for example low income family (stressed), and/or poorly educated (lack of knowledge of how to quit etc). The...